Jul 12, 2022

Azure embeddings example

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This example will cover embeddings using the Azure OpenAI service.

Setup

First, we install the necessary dependencies and import the libraries we will be using.

! pip install "openai>=1.0.0,<2.0.0"
! pip install python-dotenv

import os
import openai
import dotenv

dotenv.load_dotenv()

Authentication

The Azure OpenAI service supports multiple authentication mechanisms that include API keys and Azure Active Directory token credentials.

use_azure_active_directory = False  # Set this flag to True if you are using Azure Active Directory

To set up the OpenAI SDK to use an Azure API Key, we need to set api_key to a key associated with your endpoint (you can find this key in "Keys and Endpoints" under "Resource Management" in the Azure Portal). You'll also find the endpoint for your resource here.

if not use_azure_active_directory:
    endpoint = os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT"]
    api_key = os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY"]

    client = openai.AzureOpenAI(
        azure_endpoint=endpoint,
        api_key=api_key,
        api_version="2023-09-01-preview"
    )

Authentication using Azure Active Directory

Let's now see how we can authenticate via Azure Active Directory. We'll start by installing the azure-identity library. This library will provide the token credentials we need to authenticate and help us build a token credential provider through the get_bearer_token_provider helper function. It's recommended to use get_bearer_token_provider over providing a static token to AzureOpenAI because this API will automatically cache and refresh tokens for you.

For more information on how to set up Azure Active Directory authentication with Azure OpenAI, see the documentation.

! pip install "azure-identity>=1.15.0"

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential, get_bearer_token_provider

if use_azure_active_directory:
    endpoint = os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT"]
    api_key = os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY"]

    client = openai.AzureOpenAI(
        azure_endpoint=endpoint,
        azure_ad_token_provider=get_bearer_token_provider(DefaultAzureCredential(), "https://cognitiveservices.azure.com/.default"),
        api_version="2023-09-01-preview"
    )

Note: the AzureOpenAI infers the following arguments from their corresponding environment variables if they are not provided:

api_key from AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY
azure_ad_token from AZURE_OPENAI_AD_TOKEN
api_version from OPENAI_API_VERSION
azure_endpoint from AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT

Deployments

In this section we are going to create a deployment of a model that we can use to create embeddings.

Deployments: Create in the Azure OpenAI Studio

Let's deploy a model to use with embeddings. Go to https://portal.azure.com, find your Azure OpenAI resource, and then navigate to the Azure OpenAI Studio. Click on the "Deployments" tab and then create a deployment for the model you want to use for embeddings. The deployment name that you give the model will be used in the code below.

deployment = "" # Fill in the deployment name from the portal here

Embeddings

Now let's create embeddings using the client we built.

embeddings = client.embeddings.create(
    model=deployment,
    input="The food was delicious and the waiter..."
)
                                
print(embeddings)